STUDENTS SPEAK ON VOTING AT 16

Wales High School students have shared their views on lowering the voting age to 16 along with Head Teacher, Pepe Di’Iasio.

It’s after Rotherham’s Youth Cabinet put forward a motion to the council this week asking for councillors to support the idea.

The campaign to lower the voting age is supported by thousands of young people across the UK and following a nationwide consultation, the UK Youth Parliament voted it as their national campaign for 2017.

The proposal said:

16 and 17 year olds are knowledgeable and passionate about the world in which they live and are as capable of engaging in the democratic system as any other citizen;

Lowering the voting age to 16, combined with strong citizenship education, would empower young people to better engage in society and influence decisions that will define their future.

People, who can consent to medical treatment, work full-time, pay taxes, get married or enter a civil partnership and join the armed forces should also have the right to vote.

Pupils at Wales High recently took part in a Mock Election and were given the chance to hear the views of every candidate that was standing in the Rother Valley Constituency at the last General Election.

Grace Fletcher-Sorsby, Billy Fletcher-Sorsby and Asher Greatorex were interviewed by BBC Radio Sheffield along with the school’s Head Teacher on Wednesday morning.

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

You can adjust all of your cookie settings by navigating the tabs on the left hand side.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

disable

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

3rd Party (Google Analytics)

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.

Google Analytics is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

disable

Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!